Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Bridges visited the Tavis Smiley show on March 8th, the video has been added to the video archive along with a clip from the upcoming Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Watch both videos below.

Maggie Gyllenhaal says she grew up idolizing Madonna, so she was a little starstruck when she finally met her after being invited to one of her parties. Fortunately, the alcohol took the edge off the situation.
“She didn’t say hi, she just started dancing with me,” she told Ellen Degeneres on her show. “Luckily I had [...]

Jeff Bridges has revealed he wanted Maggie Gyllenhaal to play his love interest in Crazy Heart because he’d always “admired her acting“.
The Hollywood star – who scooped the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as alcoholic country musician Bad Blake – said Maggie was top of his wish list to play the young reporter he [...]

Maggie might have gone home empty-handed (lost out to Mo’Nique) last night but the cast of Crazy Heart has plenty to celebrate, with Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett winning for Best Original Song with The Weary Kind, and of course Maggie’s co-star and friend Jeff Bridges winning the oscar for Best Actor in a [...]

Purveyors of art-house films like to talk about the “Oscar bounce,” the phenomenon by which niche movies see a surge in ticket-buying after being nominated for Academy Awards.
This year, few films are bouncing, as “Avatar” dominated the winter months and adult audiences continue to stay away from upscale dramas. Oscar nominees “An Education” and “A [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal. Up for Best Supporting for “Crazy Heart.” She said she’d call 4:30 p.m. She called exactly 4:30 p.m. The wind was whistling through her cell phone.
“Sorry for the crackling sounds,” she said. “I’m picking up my daughter at school.”
Through the howling winds, she laughingly recalled how she heard she was nominated.
“I was at [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “Crazy Heart,” is really just happy to be nominated.
“I’m going to enjoy all of it,” she told me the other night at a USA Network/Vanity Fair party held in the thick of the big snowstorm. All the USA Network TV shows were being celebrated–”Characters Approved.” There were [...]

Calling all designers – Maggie Gyllenhaal is not committed for Oscar night.
The Best Supporting Actress nominee for “Crazy Heart” has yet to choose her dress for the March 7 award ceremony.
“I don’t know what I’m wearing to the Oscars, but I’m enjoying thinking about it a lot,” she told StyleList at the USA Network’s Feb. [...]

When we caught up with Maggie Gyllenhaal last night at the Character Approved celebration hosted by USA Network, we wondered if the studio was making her go overboard to promote Crazy Heart, because she’s nominated for an Oscar for her role in it. “Crazy Heart, you know, wasn’t going to come out now, and they [...]

“The release of this movie was tied completely to the awards season,” Maggie Gyllenhaal told indieWIRE regarding Scott Cooper’s “Crazy Heart,” for which she has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. “And I could feel it so strongly. For example, when Jeff Bridges won the Golden Globe, all of a sudden [...]